maizes needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maizes is the highest-scoring word from maizes, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in maizes — and it is maizes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maizes. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are maize, mazes, and smaze, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in maizes produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, same, and size. For points, the strongest play is maze — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling maizes turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim and sea. For points, the strongest plays are sez and zas — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, and me. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in maizes and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
maizes is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for maizes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
maizes is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maizes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is maizes, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from maizes earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in maizes produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.